Now weve
got more Rock & Roll, Doo Wop and R&B to keep your viewers dancing
in the aisles, or to your phone lines. We're committed to bringing you
this great programming, which you know you wont see anywhere else.

Look forward
to a second season of The
Ed Sullivan Show (including a Christmas special) coming to
you this year. With performances from the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Temptations
and the Supremes, these new episodes highlight some of the most exciting
and memorable decades in American music history. With thirty-eight hours
of programming, each half hour episode features music that is sure to
bring back memories and create new ones.

This
Land Is Your Land is a folk-rock show bringing together
the great folk musicians, including the Smothers Brothers, Judy Collins,
James Roger McGuinn & Barry McGuire. This hour-long special will be
offered for December pledge and accompanied by CDs and VHS.

Of course,
everybody loves more Doo Wop, and we're excited to bring you Red,
White and Rock. It's America's musical tribute to all-American
artists and songs with the Righteous Brothers, Four Tops, Frankie Avalon
and more than 40 other groups uniting for Public Television.

For more
on any of these programs, contact T.J. Lubinsky, 412-622-1369, or tjlubins@wqed.org
or PBS Express.

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Biography

With his
first experience in public television when he was barely out of his teens,
wunderkind T.J. Lubinsky has managed to parlay a personal passion for
doo wop music into a fundraising franchise for WQED Pittsburgh and PBS,
having generated $45 million in pledges to date.

Currently
the executive producer of WQED Pittsburgh's American Soundtrack Concert
Series, Lubinsky joined the organization as a membership producer in 1996.

Lubinsky's
unusual affinity for Doo Wop began developing early in his childhood in
New Jersey. Exposed since birth to the music of his grandfather, Herman
Lubinsky, the founder of the 1950's Rhythm and Doo Wop label, Savoy Records,
he was infected by his entire family's passion for the music.

It was that
kind of soul-deep appreciation for the music that inspired him to pitch
his idea to WQED for the ultimate Doo Wop concert, not a revue headed
by tribute bands but a line-up of the original Doo Wop legends.

"I was born
too late to see an Alan Freed show, so I figured I'd recreate one for
myself and my parents," Lubinsky says. "Pittsburgh was the perfect place
to do it; it's the 'Oldies Capital of the World' so this couldn't have
happened anywhere else."

Determined
to realize his vision of a full-scale musical reunion of Doo Wop's original
singers, Lubinsky launched a worldwide search for the performers. Many
had long since retired from music, and in some cases, hadn't seen or even
spoken to each other in decades. Some had fallen on hard times; others
thought they'd retired from music permanently.

Yet Lubinsky
managed to soothe ruffled feathers, entice singers from retirement, and
orchestrate some of the most exciting coups in concert history: once-in-a-lifetime
performances featuring Doo Wop's original legends.

In December,
1999, "Doo Wop 50: Celebrating Five Decades of Street Corner Harmony"
debuted nationally on PBS. Artists including The Chantels, The Marcels
and The Del Vikings took the stage. Within three hours, the program raised
over $22 million in pledges for PBS stations, surpassing "The Three
Tenors" to become the highest grossing fund-raiser in PBS history.

With an
ambitious plan to continue to create new musical super-concert pledge
programs in the months ahead, Lubinsky intends to mastermind cultural
documents that can be appreciated for generations to come, not just preserving
a moment in history, but re-creating it.

"It's all
about the music," he says, shaking his head in both wonder and satisfaction
at this phenomenon he's managed to create, "Everything's about the music."

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More From
the American Soundtrack Concert Series

Rock,
Rhythm and Doo Wop:
With a line-up boasting some of the era's most spectacular performers
--Frankie Valli, Little Richard, Jerry "The Iceman" Butler, Fred Parris
& The Five Satins, Ed Townsend, and Pittsburgh's native son and Doo Wop
legend Lou Christie, just to name a few -- the program aired nationally
on PBS in December 2001.

Much like
its predecessors, the program contributed substantially to new financial
support and membership.

Rhythm
and Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular:
Taped at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh on November 26 and 27, 2001, this show
features legendary artists of the 1960s and '70s, on-stage for a once-in-a-lifetime
event.

Ben E.
King returns to The Drifters, Jerry Butler reunites with The Impressions
for the first time since 1958, The Miracles are rejoined by Billy Griffin.
In addition, The Isley Brothers, Percy Sledge, Eddie Holman, Little Anthony
& The Original Imperials, The Chi-Lites and many more performers sing
their most memorable hits.

Co-hosted
by Dionne Warwick, Jerry "The Iceman" Butler, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave
(each of whom also performs), and Richard "Shaft" Roundtree.

'70s
Soul JamCelebrating
the sweet and sultry sounds of soul, "'70s Soul Jam" brings
some of the greatest soul balladeers of the early '70s on stage for amother
in the American Soundtrack series of all-star concerts.

Hosted by
"Dyno-mite!" Jimmy "J.J." Walker, star of the hit
'70s sitcom "Good Times," this concert special brings together, in
a once-in-a-lifetime event, legendary artists of the period performing
their most memorable hits: Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes ("If
You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost"), Cuba Gooding
Sr. & Main Ingredient ("Everybody Plays The Fool"), the Stylistics
("You Are Everything," "Betcha By Golly Wow," "You
Make Me Feel Brand New") and the Delfonics ("Didn't I Blow Your
Mind").

Soul
and Inspiration"American Soundtrack: Soul and Inspiration" unites
doo-wop and gospel music creating magnificent sounds on one stage -- for
one powerful, stimulating show.

The Dixie
Hummingbirds, the Jordanaires and The Impressions are a few of the many
legendary groups that ignite the stage with gospel favorites including
"Swing Low", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Amen."
Little Anthony and The Imperials perform "Wind Beneath My Wings"
and the Jordanaires sing "God Bless America."

Music lovers
of all ages will enjoy the uplifting sounds by these renowned vocal groups
from the '50s and '60s, celebrating faith, hope and inspiration in song.